Word: judgmentalism
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...that most churchmen don't know that anything was changed. Rome quietly published, in Latin, a papal directive known as a motu proprio (meaning under his personal authority), tucked inside a long annual record of the Holy See. It directed that allegations of sex abuse be brought secretly for judgment by Rome's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, once known as the Inquisition, keeping procedures strictly in church control. No mention was made about informing civil authorities...
PRODUCT Luggage for post-9/11 travel HOW IT STARTED Companies rushed to meet travelers' needs JUDGMENT Useful tools for the frequent flyer...
PRODUCT Peasant blouses HOW IT STARTED Tom Ford showed one last winter, to great success JUDGMENT Great in March; may be overplayed by June...
...Enrico Scrovegni to atone for the crimes of his father, a notorious usurer, and in 1303 Giotto was commissioned to decorate it. He covered the interior with a fresco narrative of the lives of Jesus and his mother, adding figures of the Virtues and Vices and a Last Judgment. "Giotto was a genius," says Professor Giuseppe Basile of Rome's Central Restoration Institute, who oversaw the restoration. "He planned the location of scenes to fit the chapel's architecture precisely. He developed a form of perspective. His figures had natural movements and expressions. The stories themselves progressed at a human...
Much that was hidden has come to light. At the top of the Last Judgment, two angels dressed in armor roll up the heavens - and we can now see that planets surround the sun and moon. While restorer Enrichetta Capodilista was working on the Massacre of the Innocents, she noticed that five of the women, whose children are being torn from them, have dark streaks on their faces. Her colleagues thought the marks might be water stains, but after she cleaned the women's faces with cotton swabs and distilled water their significance became clear. They are the desperate tears...